I've been able to pinpoint the just-recent site outage to just a few culprits - in order of least to most likely:

Moderator(s) - trying to take back control of a thread gone terribly wrong and volitile:no:

The USMIC (military industrial complex) offended by my next post (how did they know)?.

Monsanto & Bayer taking offence to Neonics & GMO bashing

The Chinese about their honey thread

01-06-2012, 09:46 PM

sqkcrk

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

What the heck RU writing about?

01-06-2012, 10:14 PM

valleyman

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

Don't know what you are refering to, but it could have been a couple of profesional bloggers that don't think that their opinions are respected even though they have read a lot and blogged a lot about things that they have very little or no experience at actually doing. I feel as though they feel that they are being mistreated on beesource, so maybe it was one or both or more of them. I just don't understand, or maybe they just don't understand!! Oh whatever! Good luck!!

01-06-2012, 11:36 PM

hoodswoods

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

Only meant as light repartee to the site being unaccessible (for me and my other 3 devices) sometime between 9 - 10 pm est. Silly of me, I know - symptoms of SADS, according to my doctor.

It does seem as though we have been Zombeed lately. Not only by flys but by Zombeekeepers.

01-07-2012, 07:14 AM

Solomon Parker

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

I was also unable to connect. Glad I wasn't the only one.

01-07-2012, 07:42 AM

tefer2

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

I had that problem on here last night too!

01-07-2012, 07:58 AM

Acebird

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

I didn't notice a problem. Probably server maintenance. You guys are so paranoid.

01-07-2012, 08:08 AM

sqkcrk

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

Being paranoid doesn't mean that HLS isn't monitoring our conversations. But I tend to think it's the flys.

01-07-2012, 08:09 AM

Barry

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

Server maintenance is always reserved for the midnight time slot. We had a server peak about two days ago that required the site to be off line for a bit and it's been running slow on my end all day Friday. We could be nearing the time to go dedicated server.

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01-07-2012, 08:25 AM

Acebird

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

HLS doesn't care, you have to be on the lookout for person of interest.:D

01-07-2012, 08:30 AM

Acebird

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

The IT guys where I worked called that server maintance. They reserved the word "crash" when things were not recoverable. Nothing runs 100%.

01-07-2012, 11:17 AM

David LaFerney

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry

...could be nearing the time to go dedicated server.

What kind of plan is it on now - if you don't mind saying? It usually seems to do just fine, although I also detected the down time yesterday.

01-07-2012, 02:32 PM

Barry

Re: Temporary Site Outage:

Emergency Network Maintenance 11PM to 3AM CST tonight 2012/1/7-8 (5AM to 9AM UTC, 2012/1/8)
"This is a notice of emergency network maintenance tonight on the network. The purpose of the maintenance is to re-introduce a core router that was removed from the network last night and bring the network back to full capacity."